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Greetings! Awesome site and an elite subscriber. What do you think about the “ famous” journalist saying AEW is more profitable than WWE from 2011-2017 and all of WCW History? I really doubt its more profitable than WWE 2011-2017.
He has said a lot of really ridiculous things in his feral, rabid defenses of AEW but that tweet took the cake. First off, he doesn't have access to AEW's books since they are a private company. He doesn't have access to the actual terms of the new AEW=WBD TV deal either. He didn't have access to WCW or The WWF's books back in the day. The guy is just a pandering clown whose main ambition in life is to prove to the world that his vision of wrestling is what the masses want to see, despite concrete evidence to the contrary. He likes to speak down to people that challenge him on his pandering lies by saying that he "studies the business” while his statements often indicate otherwise. If he truly does study the business, he consistently fails every test that he takes. He needs better study habits.
I have a question about the Vince Documentary, but not one about Vince himself this time, it's about Eric Bischoff. When they discuss the Attitude Era, and how the tide turned in the Monday Night Wars, Bischoff claims that the reason things went downhill for WCW creatively was because, after the AOL merger, he had a group of people in the company that knew nothing about the wrestling business that were telling him how to run things in WCW. I had never heard this one before in any other documentary that discussed WCW's downfall. Do you know if this is true, or was Bischoff just making up an excuse rather than admit that he had no big follow up plan when the NWO became stale, and couldn't figure out any good way to counter Vince and the Attitude Era?
They are two different questions. Yes, Bischoff presided over the glory days of WCW and also its losing the war to WWE. I agree that not being able to follow up/take the story in a new direction with the nWo is what led to the downfall of WCW in the war to the WWF. That led to Bischoff being relieved of power in 1999. He is talking about the period after that, when he returned to WCW. By that time, WWE had taken the lead back in the race and Bischoff was brought back to join Vince Russo and try get WCW back on track. When AOL took over Time Warner, WCW lost its allies. Ironically at that time AOL was all about its divisions being very profitable and WCW wasn’t. Then in 2001, Jamie Kellner took over the division and put the bullet in WCW.
When men who get brutalized by women and don’t stand their ground, they look like goofs and punks. If men can’t defend themselves, women characters shouldn’t be allowed to do more than slap a man’s face or trip a man in a match? Right or wrong?
Tripping a man isn’t brutalizing him. It’s a heel trick. A slap in the face isn’t brutalizing either. There is a line where male violence vs. women is uncomfortable. Your line is probably a lot farther towards it being acceptable for men to hit women than mine is. Yes, if Nia Jax is pounding the snot out of Sami Zayn, for instance, it would be understandable for him to defend himself. If Liv Morgan is doing it to Braun Strowman? Nope.
Since women never suffer reprisals or storylines suspensions even for manhandling male wrestlers, why doesn’t everyone bring a female bodyguard to rough people up on their behalf?
On the flip side, this is a valid consideration and bookers need to be cognizant of how much they let a woman attack a man.
Where in the world is Shinsuke Nakamura?
He is still signed with WWE and working some events. WWE has gotten very good at keeping performers off of TV to keep them fresh when they aren’t in an important storyline. My understanding is that is what is going on with Nakamura.
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